Fiona Hill Screams GOP lawmakers were weaponizing “falsehoods”
President Donald Trump’s former top Russia aide sparred with Rep ublican lawmakers on Thursday, accusing them of encouraging Moscow by pushing a “fictional narrative” that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election. In Fiona opening statement before House impeachment investigators, Fiona Hill said lawmakers were weaponizing “falsehoods” that advance Russian interests and distract from its aggression in eastern Europe and around the world. “I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and that Ukraine not Russia attacked us in 2016,” Hill told the House Intelligence Committee in its seventh public impeachment hearing. “These fictions are harmful even if they are deployed for purely domestic political purposes,” added Hill, a longtime Russia hawk. Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the Intelligence Committee, pushed back against Hill’s characterization, pointing to the committee’s...

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